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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
Where am I?
Category: Information Science
This article is in early view at JASIST. It looks like it comes from the author's dissertation. It isn't terribly earth-shattering, but it's well done, it provides more evidence, and there are definitely some implications for library/IR manager practice....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:12 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
And why we should care. Gary Price of the Resource Shelf pointed to a news story today, that Ebsco has acquired two more research databases: Criminal Justice Abstracts and Communications Abstracts. For those of you who haven't been following, Ebsco...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
The announcement is dated January 6, 2010, but the report itself is dated July 2010. In any case it's new to me, so I thought I would run through some interesting points. Here's the citation (as much as I can...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
One of the anti-PLOSone arguments is that its acceptance rate is too high at about 70%. Since I had my RK Merton compendium open to this article, I thought I would quote some bits to backup my argument that the...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:50 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
How do zombies seek and use information? What are their information needs? Their information needs primarily consist of finding brains. They pretty much search by geographic proximity and pattern matching. The type of browsing they do doesn't seem...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 5:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
Nick Carr, quoted by the Readablity folks here, talks about hyperlinks as distractions - part of how the web screws up our brains. I was just browsing (couldn't possibly read this one from cover to cover) Nentwich (2003) and ran...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conferences
Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is being held right now in DC. Use both twitter hash tags: #icwsm2010 and #icwsm. The papers are online at: http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM10/schedConf/presentations....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 5:42 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
My larger institution's (so not my place of work, but our parent org's) libraries had a fabulous get together Friday with a session on data curation. The speakers were: Clifford Lynch of the Coalition for Networked Information, Carole Palmer from...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 4:11 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: information policy
Here's a quote from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers' response (pdf) to the FRPAA legislation (about): There is no need for federal agencies to replicate content on their own sites when web-linking approaches...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:37 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
Revere of Effects Measure has a great post on expertise, authorship, and "real" names. At this point, after years and years of blogs it's a shame this has to be said explicitly. The general points go like this: there are...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 1:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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